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May 2018

May 10, 2018
Over half of the money that Americans spend on food goes for eating out in...
May 09, 2018
  Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) is a thinker I want to look into more, writing as...
May 09, 2018
We finally watched Avengers:  Infinity War.  The super villain in that story is Thanos, who has...
May 08, 2018
There are all kinds of negative emotions.  Not all of them are morally or spiritually...
May 08, 2018
The Golden State Killer raped more than 50 women and murdered 12 of them.  This...
May 07, 2018
Nathan Rinne, who blogs with Jordan Cooper at Just and Sinner here at Patheos, discusses...
May 07, 2018
How far is the Left going in the United States?  We now have American Maoists...
May 04, 2018
I have blogged about my former student John Ehrett, who wrote that perceptive review of...
May 04, 2018
May 5 is the 200th birthday of Karl Marx.  Seldom have the ideas of one...
May 03, 2018
  I came across a remarkable poem by the Dutch author Jacobus Revius (1586-1658).  He...
May 03, 2018
Most Americans are lonely, according to a new study.  And, contrary to what we might...
May 02, 2018
I just got back from Concordia University Chicago (formerly known as Concordia River Forest).  The...
May 02, 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron and American President Donald Trump disagree on just about everything--economics, immigration,...
May 01, 2018
In yesterday's post on Luther and Trump, we drew on the work of economist Lyman...
May 01, 2018
Ours is seemingly a polarized society, but the extreme "left" and the extreme "right" have...

April 2018

April 30, 2018
Did Martin Luther give us Donald Trump?  Are Lutherans responsible for getting Trump elected?  This...
April 30, 2018
  Many evangelicals are giving up the term "evangelical."  They are embarrassed by their movement's...
April 27, 2018
"I believe in God."  That sounds like a straightforward statement.  But what God do you...
April 27, 2018
China and India have been practicing gendercide--that is, the systematic abortion of female babies--for decades. ...
April 26, 2018
An increasing number of Americans say that they are "spiritual but not religious."  That is,...
April 26, 2018
Unemployment would be completely ended with a program that would give every America who wanted...
April 25, 2018
Google has banned remarketing ads from Concordia Publishing House, the publishing company of the Lutheran...
April 25, 2018
What's happening to American freedom and democracy?  Is it in danger?  Is it thriving?  Or...
April 24, 2018
As we have blogged, the housing allowance tax exemption for ministers of religion has been...
April 24, 2018
Professor John McAdams was a tenured political science professor at Marquette University, a Jesuit institution...
April 23, 2018
The California State Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw "the sale or lease...
April 23, 2018
A high-level meeting of big donors, Democratic party officials, and politicians came up with three...
April 20, 2018
An article at Aleteia entitled This is How Christians Lived in the 2nd Century by...
April 20, 2018
In 1961, the Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was put on trial for his role in...
April 19, 2018
A Mennonite pastor has just been released after spending two years in prison--the full term...
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